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The Best Video Clips On Goal-Setting — Help Me Find More

I have a good lesson on goal-setting in my book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves, and I’m beginning to organize another one. As part of that process, I’ve begun to collect video clips on goal-setting, and I’m hoping readers will help me out.

Here’s an initial list. What I’d really like are sever very short video clips from popular movies and television shows. There are plenty of nauseating “self-help” goal-setting videos out there that would be fairly useless in a high school classroom.

Hi Larry! There are wonderful clips of all sorts at wingclips.com from popular movies tagged by category and theme! They are also not on youtube which is a benefit to me since my district does not allow it.

(The above is not the entire scene… the ending where Luke says “I don’t believe it” and Yoda adds…”That is why you fail” is priceless. I love using this clip in class, but I use it from the DVD itself.)

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